Week of 20 February through 26 February

Kosovo Interim Administrative Council sets out civil service recruitment policy
FEBRUARY 25 -- The Kosovo Interim Administrative Council (IAC) today agreed to create a professional civil service that will remain when the administration is handed over to Kosovo's people after international administrators leave.   FULL STORY >>

Kosovo Transitional Council calls for urgent action on missing and detained persons
FEBRUARY 23 -- The Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) today urged the international community, and the UN Security Council in particular, to put maximum pressure on Belgrade authorities to release all detainees from Kosovo held unlawfully in Yugoslav prisons.   FULL STORY >>

Kosovo gets a new mobile telephone network
FEBRUARY 23 -- A new mobile telephone network begun operations in Pristina today and will be extended to cover the rest of the province by September, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) announced.   FULL STORY >>

Kosovo's Administrative Council pledges to work for a united Mitrovica
FEBRUARY 22 -- Kosovo's Interim Administrative Council (IAC) has pledged to work to unite the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica.   FULL STORY >>

UN envoy tries to calm demonstrators in Mitrovica
FEBRUARY 21 -- In what was reported to be a "very tense and very volatile" situation, the head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Dr. Bernard Kouchner, today addressed a crowd of several thousand demonstrators in the ethnically divided Kosovo city of Mitrovica.    FULL STORY >>